When I was a little kid the USA Network used to re-run old cartoons from the 1960s and 70s on a show called Cartoon Express. One of my favourites was a show called Laugh-A-Lympics where Hanna-Barbara characters would compete against each other in comedy versions of Olympic events. You’d have Scooby-Doo Vs. Yogi Bear, Hong [...]

When the original Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal, you were able to buy an strange cross between a pedometer and a Tamagotchi virtual pet known as the Pokemon Pikachu 2 GS. This digital device could be clipped to your belt and would count the number of steps you took. These steps could then be traded [...]

Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver has just been released. As with the original version of the game, your first Gym Leader is Falkner of Violet City. He has two Pokemon, a Level 9 Pidgey and a Level 13 Pidegotto. We’re going to take a look at the Pokemon you can collect before you [...]

Like with any of the core Pokemon games, Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver offers you a choice of three Starter Pokemon. There is Chikorita, the Grass Type, Cyndaquil, the Fire Type and Totodile, the Water type. Now back in 2000-01, I chose Totodile first for Gold because I thought he was the cutest and [...]

To kick off Pokemon Week and to celebrate the remakes of the Johto Generation with Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, we’ve prepared strategy guides for you on the Johto Gym Leaders, the Elite Four, and the Kanto Gym Leaders. Click on any (or all) of the three topics below to see what each Trainer [...]

What was the worst gift you ever got for your birthday? Mine was a box of cat poop (true story), though even that was probably not as bad as the gift received by the main character of Rooms: The Main Building. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle that transports you to another world where the only means [...]

Facebook fans will be happy to know ohai is beta testing its latest MMO creation City of Eternals, a social adventure placing players in the role of modern vampires. In cooperation with Diehard GameFAN, ohai is giving away 100 free beta testing codes that will not only get you into the game, but will [...]

Ceiling Cthulhu is watching you go insane.

In the first of what is hoped to be a new regular series of audio podcasts, Diehard GameFAN’s Ian Gorrie and Jonathan Widro kick things off by talking about some of the biggest console and third party publishers taking the online component of their games offline.
Topics include Microsoft taking Xbox Live offline for the [...]

On Tuesday, February 16th, XEED released Ragnarok DS for the well…Nintendo DS. This action RPG sports the visuals, locations and overall feel of the MMORPG it is based on, Ragnarok Online. This Korean MMORPG has entertained millions, but I am not one of them. I’ve never been into MMORPG’s, with the only two I’ve [...]

While we originally covered Ace Team’s Zeno Clash back in November thanks to Guy Desmarais’ glowing review of the PC version, the title is looking to come back in a big way thanks to an upcoming Ultimate Edition title. This update will be making its way to another global stage on Xbox LIVE Arcade [...]

The path from independent to retail is a long and selective journey, but given the resources available to aspiring developers today, we are seeing a resurgence in original ideas akin to when computer games could be written by a couple of programmers on a computer in a garage. While the advance in technology has [...]

A few years ago, I read a book called The Terror, by Dan Simmons. The book is a fictionalization of what happened to a pair of exploratory vessels that tried to force the Northwest Passage and sail through the Arctic Ocean in 1845. Bad things happened in no short supply, and the combined horrors of [...]

With so many major players in the horror game market, between Capcom’s top-tier Resident Evil series, Konami’s respectable-but-dwindling Silent Hill franchise, and EA’s up-and-coming Dead Space series, among others, it can be hard for new developers to get their foot in the door with genre fans. Siren: Blood Curse and Condemned 2: Bloodshot were solid [...]

One of the best new features in Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 is the revamped master league mode. Youth teams, training, finances, negotiations, and scouting have fundamentally changed this mode for the better (though I’d like the option to switch teams please, Konami).
So now you just booted up a game in the Master League and now [...]

I’d like to start off by saying that I should’ve done one of these articles more recently, but between family holidays, busy working schedule and there just being a lot of games that have come out over the last month that I wanted to sit down and enjoy without worrying about a review deadline, I [...]

Fresh off finishing work on the much-anticipated BioShock 2, the teams at 2K Marin and Digital Extremes have surfaced from the depths of Rapture for a quick breath of air. Thankfully, during this time, Jordan Thomas, Zak McClendon and Hoagy De La Plante from 2K Marin and Mat Tremblay and Jesse Attard of Digital [...]

Let’s get this out of the way up front: I had mixed emotions about Risen before I went out to preview the game last week. The game, at first glance, looked to be another third person action RPG on a console flush with them. Reviews of the European Xbox 360 release had been unkind to [...]

Part of me feels like I should make a Shidoshi reference since I’m doing an anime review here at Diehard GameFAN. I should point out to both long-time and new readers that anime reviews will not be a common thing here at DHGF, but since this was an anime based on a video game, [...]

Trauma Team is a departure from the previous Trauma Center series, with less of a focus on performing operations and an introduction of five new specialties. Recently I was given the opportunity to watch a demonstration of the forensics part of the game. Thus far, it looks to be a treat for those who like [...]